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Decisions Decisions – A Farmer\u27s Mitigation Dilemma
No full textLivestock producers are under rising pressure to nourish a growing population while simultaneously reducing the impact of meat/milk production on the planets’ climate. Decision Support Tools (DST) provide a valuable evidence-based decision-making framework in agriculture to improve productivity and environmental outputs. Decision Support Tools are often developed and designed by local stakeholders and tend to represent their national system. While current DSTs may be used to examine the impact of management choices on farm emissions, there are relatively few tools available for Irish farms that take into account both the environmental and financial aspects of decision-making. This research will improve existing farm scale descision support systems designed to cost effectively mitigate Green House Gas emissions from livestock production systems
Developing the artistry of the teacher in Steiner/Waldorf Education (Part I)
Get PDFThis article examines different concepts underlying Steiner/Waldorf teacher education and how they are put into practice. It explains how teaching understood as an art can be seen as a leitmotif going through an entire course of studies. It elucidates the central role which pedagogical anthropology plays in Steiner/Waldorf teacher education and the specific contribution of Rudolf Steiner’s understanding of Anthroposophy in this context. The prominent role which the study and practice of different arts plays in Steiner/Waldorf teacher education programs is explained and the reasons for the inclusion of artistic practice in teacher education are discussed. The understanding in Steiner/Waldorf teacher education programs of how teacher education is then transformed into a teacher’s classroom practice is examined including its role in providing a basis for a teacher’s pedagogical intuitions
Teaching tool codified gestures - Can more people learn more? Experiences with the Earth Speakr app from digital teacher training
Get PDFDuring spring of the academic year 2020-2021, the English Didactics department of the Freie Universität Berlin offered a seminar on drama pedagogy. Given the pandemic and a syllabus which promised future teachers ‘teaching through actual classroom practice’ it was decided to take the in-person sessions between university students and grade six students online. The result of these collaborative drama lab sessions were Earth Speakr messages which, after being practiced online, were recorded in person at school in the Earth Speakr app by the English teacher, a university student assistant and the course instructor. Once uploaded, these messages become part of the global Earth Speakr artwork initiated by the artist and climate activist Olafur Eliasson. This article lays out some of the parameters, contexts and challenges of the sessions. These are complemented by individual reflections as well as outstanding questions for further research. Linguistic actions used in performative teaching, such as acting during an online guessing game or using gestures to practice pronouncing a word can have transformative effects. Even during pandemic times, there is evidence that these experiences can help learners and teachers to connect and find their own place in the social worlds they move in
Characterization of new materials for capacitor formation in integrated circuit technology
Get PDFThere have been tremendous developments in electronic technology in the last 40 years as evidenced by the widespread availability of computers, mobile phones and electronic entertainment systems and their continued shrinking in size and cost. Much of the improvement in the performance of electronic systems can be traced to developments in Integrated Circuits (ICs) (“microchips”) which form the fundamental building blocks of modern electronics technology. Within an IC, the most important electronic component is the transistor and it is the transistor that is used to implement the operations associated with computer logic. With each generation of technology, the size of the transistors is reduced and more of them can fit on a single IC, which allows more powerful devices to be made that take up the same or even smaller space and draw less power from the battery. This trend regarding the scaling down in size of the transistors was ..
Bridging the quality gap in diabetes care
Get PDF“At the end of the day it’s not about me and it’s not about the hospital, it’s about the patient.” The sentiment of this GP was echoed by many others during interviews which I conducted to better understand attitudes towards improving diabetes care. Ultimately, the purpose of the health system is to improve the health and quality of life of the patient, not the system itself. This goal appears obvious and yet a gap remains between the ideal, as set out in national and international guidelines, and the reality of care delivered to people with diabetes. The gap in quality is by no means a distinctly Irish problem and we can certainly learn from the efforts of other countries. However the techniques we choose to improve the quality of care will need to be adapted to fit our national context and local circumstances. With this in mind, I began my ..
Review of Garde, U., & Severn, J.R. (Eds.) (2021). Theatre and internationalization. Perspectives from Australia, Germany, and beyond. Routledge.
Get PDFConquering the Zoombies: Why we need drama in online settings
Get PDFIn this piece we offer a reflexive account of our recent experiences of teaching with drama in two different online settings. Eva will recount her practice teaching trainee teachers in Switzerland and Nicky will recall her practice working with postgraduate applied theatre students in a drama school in the UK. Over and over again, we have encountered the mind-set that teaching drama online is “not possible”, or at the very least, that it is but a pale reflection of face-to-face teaching. Although we were out of our comfort zone at first, we now feel that teaching with drama online has its place in our fast-paced and increasingly technological world. Teaching and learning in digital contexts will likely remain a reality from now on, thus it is the purpose of this article to make the case for the creative potential of and indeed urgent need for online teaching that includes drama.
Chewing the fat about our children’s health
Get PDFPopular culture is jammed with TV shows about our health and what we eat, whether it’s ‘The Health Squad’ making people healthy from the inside out or Gillian McKeith telling people ‘You Are What You Eat’. Our study, looking extensively at the eating habits of children aged 5-12 years in Ireland, shows us that the extreme picture painted by the media has some basis in fact. Around one in five children are overweight or obese, and many children’s diets are lacking in important nutrients and fibre; it is time to find out why and what implications this may have on their future health. The National Children’s Food Survey was a comprehensive survey carried out by researchers in UCC and UCD, investigating the eating habits of children in Ireland between the ages of 5 and 12 years. The survey has provided a valuable insight into the diets of children in this ..
